Fundamentals of Business

Fundamentals of Business, Second Edition (2018) is an 372-page open education resource freely available online at https://doi.org/10.21061/fundamentals-of-business and intended to serve as a faculty customizable primary text for one-semester undergraduate introductory business courses. It covers the following topics in business: Teamwork; economics; ethics; entrepreneurship; business ownership, management, and leadership; organizational structures and operations management; human resources and motivating employees; managing in labor union contexts; marketing and pricing strategy; hospitality and tourism, accounting and finance, and personal finances. The textbook was designed for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business and is shared under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial ShareAlike 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 without attribution to the original author or publisher at their request.